Volunteerism: Your Path To A Fulfilling Life with Karen Knight, Volunteer Management Consultant
Care More Be Better: A Podcast For Sustainable Social Impact and Regeneration
Corinna Bellizzi
5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 27 April 2022
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Did you know that volunteerism can be a path to achieving happiness? It's no coincidence that the concept of serving your fellow man is included in every 12-step program on the planet. The reason is simple. Volunteering your time to others that can benefit from your effort actually makes you feel good!
Join Corinna as she connects with Karen Knight, a volunteer management consultant that helps not-for-profits engage with volunteers so they can extend their reach and build more successes. We talk about a variety of charities, including Lasagna Love, a volunteer organization that provides food to those who need it when they need it in communities around the globe, Give to Get, a volunteer-driven company that asks people to volunteer their time to attend amazing benefit concerts, and Team in Training, the volunteer arm of the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) that builds volunteer teams that raise funds for the LLS while training for marathons and triathlons.
- Karen Knight's website: https://karenknight.ca
- Karen Knight's email: [email protected]
Prior Episodes Mentioned
- Grady Lee, Give To Get
- Dr. Vimal Thomas George, Your Health In Flames
- Aden Nepom, The Art of Change
- Rhiannon Menn, Lasagna Love
Time Stamps:
00:00 Introductions
02:30 Karen's path to volunteerism
08:30 Volunteering as a career development path
12:00 Give To Get, Grady Lee's not-for-profit
13:00 Team in Training fundraising example
19:30 Dr. Vimal Thomas George
23:30 Choosing how you'll make a difference
27:00 Closing comments & how to unleash your inner activist
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| 0:00.0 | This show is brought to you by Pottatize, podcast hosting, and done for you production services that get you heard by more of your ideal listeners. |
| 0:09.7 | Visit pottetize.com to book a free strategy call. That's P-O-D-E-T-I-Z-E.com. |
| 0:29.6 | Welcome to Care More Be Better, a podcast for people like you who care about the social impact of conscious companies and everyday heroes. |
| 0:35.6 | Hear inspiring stories from those who put people in planet before profit and personal gain. You'll learn how you can make a difference, vote with your |
| 0:38.2 | dollars, and get involved today. Here's your host, Karina Belizzi. Hello, fellow do-goaters and |
| 0:45.2 | friends. I'm your host, Karina Belizzi, an activist and cause marketer who's passionate about |
| 0:50.4 | social impact and sustainability. My goal with this podcast is to invite you to care a little bit |
| 0:56.0 | more so that together we can create a better society, reverse global warming, and regenerate |
| 1:02.1 | Earth. Today we're going to talk about activism, volunteering, and the many ways in which we can |
| 1:08.5 | all contribute to creating a better world. To delve into this |
| 1:12.4 | topic, I'm joined by Karen Knight. Karen, welcome to the show. Thank you so much for having me. |
| 1:20.1 | Well, it's lovely to have you here. This is something I've wanted to dive deep into for a while |
| 1:25.9 | because, you know, heck, even my reasons for starting the show all |
| 1:29.9 | connect to activism to wanting to make a difference and so with your work specifically in volunteer |
| 1:39.2 | management as a consultant who helps not-for-profits leverage their volunteers so that they have greater impact. |
| 1:46.5 | I'd just like to know a little bit more about what your history is, what led you to do that, |
| 1:53.4 | and ultimately kind of use that as this starting ground of stoking our fires and really thinking |
| 1:59.0 | about what we can each do to give back to our communities. |
| 2:02.3 | I came into the field of working as someone who works with volunteers from a rather convoluted |
| 2:11.7 | path. I started out originally. I'm a trained cabinet maker. That was my trade. I built kitchen and |
| 2:19.5 | bathroom cabinets. I built furniture. One day I had had a disagreement with my boss. And I went |
| 2:27.5 | home that night and I thought, why am I doing this? I had been volunteering for decades, |
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